The IDEA team is a multitalented and multidisciplinary group who are exploring the future of mobile phone interfaces.

We are a group of designers, computer scientists, ethnographers, philosophers and engineers, and we work closely together throughout the development process. Within the group this runs from drawing insights from user studies, to building novel prototype software, to running medium and large-scale pilot studies, and evaluating new concepts and technologies. We collaborate extensively with colleagues elsewhere at Nokia and with experts in academia, and are highly involved in human-computer interaction communities.

  TEAM MEMBERS

Mirjana Spasojevic, Team Leader | Tico Ballagas | Agathe Battestini | Vidya Setlur | Tim Sohn | Hayes Raffle | Koichi Mori | Hiroshi Horii | Jofish Kaye

  INTERNS

Janet Go | Morgan Ames, Stanford University | Dean Eckles, Stanford Univeristy| Tarik Crnovrsanin

  CURRENT PROJECTS

Interactive Visualizations: developing new techniques and user interfaces that enhance visual communication.


StoryPlay: reading with young children over a distance (collaboration with Sesame Workshop).


Understanding how families communicate and how we can build new technologies for enabling communication within families.

Looking at new ways to enable communication between friendsand to take advantage of multimedia capabilities of new cellphone technologies.

Developing new platforms for prototyping of advanced user interfaces.

  PUBLICATIONS

  COLLABORATORS

• Cliff Nass, Stanford University
• Kwan-Liu Ma, UC Davis
• Pat Hanrahan, Stanford University
• Scott Klemmer, Stanford University
• Kimiko Ryokai, UC Berkeley
• Sesame Workshop and Joan Ganz Cooney Center

  ALUMNI

Leila Takayama | Sharon Ding | Sam Rossoff | Sadiya Hameed